Gilgamesh And Noah Compare And Contrast

The similarities and differences of Gilgamesh and Noah These two stories have a shared plot and conclusion, but like most stories of "similar" descent, they too have their differences. The stories begin with characters who can be considered the apprentices of their gods, who respected and carried out the word that was spoken to them. The first difference we start with is acknowledging how the protaginist in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, was a king (a sugar daddy, if you will) while Noah was but a common (and really fucking old) man. In the story of Noah, God warns him of an upcoming worldwide flood, he intends to invoke as a way of starting anew and directly instructs Noah to build a boat of specific dimensions and materials with the help of his family. In the epic of Gilgamesh, a righteous man Utnapishtim is told the plans of an upcoming flood by the god Ea, betraying the other gods who planned it out, and …show more content…
In the Epic of Gilgamesh the boat was completed in seven days due to the help of several workmen and villagers who were tricked into building it on the conceived idea that their friend was being sent away by the god Enlil. However as told in the narrative of Noah, he and his family were the only ones to construct the boat, whilst their village looked on humored by their efforts to disdain the beautiful weather in a boat built for a storming sea. But as it continues, once twain ships were complete both were loaded with a vast majority of animals in sets of twos, and the families of the righteous men. Might it also be mentioned that a difference between bot pariables, Utnapishtim actually not only stocked animals and his family in his boat but also had with him many of his possessions, versus Noah who had nothing more than the animals and his family, amongst their